Distances from Huntington Beach, CA to nearby and major US cities
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Huntington Beach, CA to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Huntington Beach, CA sits in California, on Los Angeles time, at 33.66° north and 118.00° west. The nearest place of any size is Seal Beach, CA, about 11 miles away — roughly 22 min of driving. 111 other towns of size are within an hour's drive.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 196 are within three hours' driving of Huntington Beach, CA and 246 within six — which is a better measure of how connected a town is than its position on a map. The nearest city of real size is Santa Ana, CA, about 13 miles out.
The two lists below answer different questions. The first is what is physically close, which is what you want for an errand or a day out. The second is the major cities people actually drive to from here, which is usually a longer trip and a different kind of plan. Every figure is an estimated road distance rather than a routed one, and every drive time assumes free-flowing traffic with no allowance for a stop — how the estimate works. For a pair that is not listed here, the calculator will work out any two US cities.
Which way the driving goes from Huntington Beach, CA
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Huntington Beach, CA. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 52 of 196 — lies to the northwest, with 47 to the north. Only 1 sit to the west. That asymmetry is usually geography rather than road building: coastline, a state line, mountains or simply empty country in one direction and settlement in another.
196 of those places are in California and 0 are across a state line, which matters more than the mileage does. Speed limits, phone rules and what you may do at a red light are all set state by state, so a drive of the same length can be governed by two sets of rules or by one. The state-by-state differences are set out separately.
The major-city list below spans a wide range: Los Angeles, CA is about 37 miles out, roughly 59 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 2,845 miles — a different order of trip entirely, and one to plan in stages rather than as a day. 2 of the 10 routes below have a page of their own, with the towns along the way and how flying compares.
One thing none of these figures account for: the distance is the same in both directions but the drive often is not. A route that climbs on the way out descends on the way back, rush hour is in one direction in the morning and the other in the evening, and a mountain pass can be open one way and closed the other in winter. The estimate here is symmetrical because the road is; the day is not. For a long haul out of Huntington Beach, CA, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Huntington Beach, CA
Major cities from Huntington Beach, CA
- Los Angeles, CA 37 mi · 59 min
- Las Vegas, NV 276 mi · 4 hr 36 min
- Phoenix, AZ 396 mi · 6 hr 36 min
- San Francisco, CA 437 mi · 6 hr 57 min
- Houston, TX 1571 mi · 24 hr 56 min
- Chicago, IL 2020 mi · 32 hr 3 min
- Philadelphia, PA 2768 mi · 43 hr 56 min
- New York City, NY 2835 mi · 45 hr
- Brooklyn, NY 2839 mi · 45 hr 3 min
- Queens, NY 2845 mi · 45 hr 10 min